“Contagion, China, and how COVID might end” by Dr. Michael Humphries

WHAT: RASBJ Zoom talk followed by QA

WHEN: June 24, 19:00-20:00 Beijing Standard Time

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: Michael Humphries will examine key learnings from previous epidemics in China and elsewhere and review how effectively they have translated into modern public health practice. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a tragic toll in human life and has tested health systems and governments to the limit. How might this pandemic end?

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Dr. Michael Humphries, educated at Cambridge and London, is a respiratory physician who has lived and worked in Hong Kong/China for 35 years. He was formerly Consultant Physician at the Ruttonjee Sanatorium Hong Kong and has held honorary faculty positions at Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in medicine, community medicine and microbiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London and Edinburgh) and Fellow of the Academy of Chest Physicians (USA).

HOW MUCH: This event is free and exclusively for members of RASBJ and of other RAS branches.

HOW TO BECOME AN RASBJ MEMBER: If you’d like to join RASBJ in order to attend this event, please add MembershipRASBJ on Wechat or email membership.ras.bj@gmail.com at least two days before the event.

RASBJ’s UPCOMING ZOOM EVENTS:

July 1 : Conservationist and environmental lawyer Terry Townshend on “Rewilding China”

July 8: Author Dexter Roberts on “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism”

July 22: Frances Wood on “Mahjong in Maida Vale: the Chinese intellectual community in the UK 1930s-50s”.

July 29: Prof. Hans van de Ven on The Chinese Maritime Customs Service

August 5: Prof. Arne Westad on “The origins of reform and opening in China in the 1970s”

in Sept: Prof. Rana Mitter on “China’s Good War: How WWII is Shaping a New Nationalism”